Klarinet Archive - Posting 001008.txt from 2000/08

From: alevin@-----. Levin)
Subj: Re: [kl] RE: Bernstein recording of West Side Story
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:59:26 -0400

And - if memory serves - Beecham once said that....."A tenor is not a voice
- it is a disease!"

Allen, againAt 09:59 AM 8/28/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Someone wrote:
>
>>And these artists aren't stupid. How could they have produced such a
>>travesty? Bernstein himself, caught up in a stunt that he probably
>>wished he'd never begun, showed understandable irritation during the
>>film of the recording.
>
>He was irritated, but it wasn't because the singers were too "operatic." In
>one instance, it was because Carerras, who has a great voice but can't count
>his way out of a wet paper bag, couldn't figure out where to enter and
>essentially wanted a rehearsal in the recording studio.
>
>Also, I have a feeling that part of the display by Bernstein was because he
>knew he was being videotaped, and his histrionics were part of a display of
>his gigantic ego.
>
>Ed Lacy
>el2@-----.edu
>
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